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CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison (zdnet.com)
US prosecutors are preparing new charges against a former CIA coder who was indicted earlier this year in June for leaking classified CIA material to WikiLeaks, in what later become known as the Vault7 leaks. From a report: According to new court documents filed late Wednesday, October 31, US prosecutors plan to file three new charges against Joshua Schulte for allegedly leaking more classified data while in detention at the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). Prosecutors say they first learned of Schulte's behavior back in May, when they found out that "Schulte had distributed the Protected Search Warrant Materials to his family members for purposes of dissemination to other third parties, including members of the media." The prosecution held a court hearing in May and initially warned the suspect about his actions, a warning they found Schulte ignored. The US government says that "in or about early October 2018, the Government learned that Schulte was using one or more smuggled contraband cellphones to communicate clandestinely with third parties outside of the MCC." A search of his housing unit performed by FBI agents revealed "multiple contraband cellphones (including at least one cellphone used by Schulte that is protected with significant encryption); approximately 13 email and social media accounts (including encrypted email accounts); and other electronic devices."
Continue the good work!
Good for him!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
I guess he never heard the advice that if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Hopefully some soviets will do the same. May all those complicit in domestic spying and surveillance get what is coming to them while this man lives to see freedom and the rewards he rightly deserves for remaining loyal to The People of the United States of America.
Collaborating with Wikileaks is collaborating with the Russian govt. Bullet in head solution needed.
God I hate that word.
"Look everyone! I made my first web page! I'm a coder now!"
This dude is a beast. I've been to prison. It's hard to get one phone in let alone multiple with good encryption. He is not working alone and whoever he's working with has skills.
Anyone giving our information to WikiLeaks deserves to lose their life.
This little sht is lucky he lives in America.
So someone who literally has access to the CIAs treasure trove of exploits (vault7) somehow manages to not be able to cover his tracks with child porn? This smells of planted evidence either to obtain information already known but procured in a non admissible way or to do a character assassination. Don't get me wrong, its not that I don't believe someone in the CIA looks at kiddie porn. Its just that I don't believe they'd be so easily caught for it when idiots who know very little about computers hide this stuff.
Dont worry Im sure those forced labor prisoncamps are just for the poors!
Apparently it's not a crazy rare occurrence for a prisoner (Schulte) to have not one but two contraband cell phones ("and other electronic devices") that the prisoner can gab with the outside world with. One has to have a certain amount of respect for that amount of hutzpah and tenacity to accomplish that.
Asking for a friend of course.
That boy is a leakin' fool. Hell, he'll climb a tree to leak when he could just stand on the ground and not leak. Yes sir, ain't no stoppin' him. He'll be leakin' till the day he dies, I reckon. And then he'll probably leak some more in heaven!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
There is a point where US Citizens are supposed to know what their business of government is doing, for it is the peoples business as the founders established.
and enjoy your dreams.
That may be true historically, but in a modern context we're all just as clueless as everyone else in the world. Which is why I say "We're not responsible for the US government's actions, take it up with them" when foreigners try to lay blame on us. The US government is a separate entity that only truly answers to a very small minority, and the rest have no clue as to what they are doing or have done. The US government does everything in it's power to conceal the truth of it's actions from it's citizens. Trying to blame someone for something they know nothing about is pointless.
For everyone who isn't a member of that special minority, it's far better just to assume the worst and vote all of them out, than to start asking questions. That rabbit hole is pretty deep Dorothy.
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welcome to the party new blood. ever play scramble the letters?
This is a very heartwarming story indeed. I love it when all of the self proclaimed "supermen" who think they have the power of God, and probably think they are omnipotent get owned by one man, and a man who they thought if they buried forever would never trouble them again at that.
FBI, CIA, Pentagon, etc..... All a bunch of turds on horses so high that they become delusional from the lack of oxygen so far up.
i will be stretching my anus in my supportnof smuggling things into prison for the afteglife meshnetbpromised by Lord Jebus.
Lo, i see my brother and sister and mother
Lo, I see the libenof my people back to the Goatse.
Lo, they bid me join them in the nntp!
Where the trolls may live... unoderated.
Or maybe he was willing to take the hit for the benefit of all of us.
There's nothing wrong with the CIA having powerful tools. It is to the benefit of the nation if they do. Releasing them was an act of treason, plain and simple.
So the classified materials he leaked were: "Protected Search Warrant Materials". If i understand correctly, the entirety of his search warrant was secret. And, he's being charged with leaking, so the "secrets" are already out there. So, it's secret because it's *not* secret. This smells rather "Catch-22" to me.